Saturday, March 21, 1998Last modified at 3:19 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 1998

Alta Thurston

FLOYDADA (Special) - Services for Alta Jewel Hall Thurston, 80, of Floydada will be at 2 p.m. today saturday in City Park Church of Christ with the Rev. Gene McCarty officiating.

Burial will be in Floyd County Memorial Park under direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home.

She died Thursday, March 19, 1998, in Lubbock.

She was born July 14, 1917, in Johnson County. She graduated from Rio Vista High School. She moved to Floyd County in 1939. She married Joseph Roberts Thurston on Feb. 12, 1939, in Cleburne. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

She was a homemaker. A son, Joe Robert, and a daughter, Johnnie Ward, preceded her in death.

Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Anella Graig of Covington, Lynda Wise of Derby, Kan., and Sandy Core of Lubbock; a brother, Odell Hall of Cleburne; three sisters, Ruby Burnett of Rio Vista, Mabel Pearson of Covington and Bertha Hancock of Blum; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

The family suggests memorials to City Park Church of Christ, 505 S. Fifth St., Floydada 79235, or to Hospice of Lubbock, 4314 S. Loop 289, Lubbock 79410.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today.